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Rajapandian M

Rajapandian M

Network and Security Engineer

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Network and Security Administrator

Intellect Design Arena
8 2021 - Current


AWS:

  • Configured AWS VPCs, subnets, and route tables for multi-tier applications, enabling secure and scalable networking within AWS.
  • Deployed Elastic Load Balancers to distribute incoming application traffic across multiple EC2 instances.
  • Hands on AWS security practices such as Security Groups, Network ACLs, and AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall).
  • Experience with VPNs, Direct Connect, and interconnecting on-premises networks with AWS.
  • Used Route 53 to implement advanced DNS routing policies, including failover and geolocation-based routing.
  • Optimized VPC configurations, including NAT Gateways and Direct Connect connections, to reduce data transfer costs and improve network efficiency.


K8s Lab Experience:

  • Deployment, upgrading, scaling, and monitoring of Kubernetes clusters.
  • Persistent storage solutions in Kubernetes using Persistent Volumes (PV) and Persistent Volume Claims (PVC)
  • Kubernetes RBAC, Secret management, Pod Security Policies, Network Policies
  • Deployed Kubernetes Ingress controllers (NGINX) for efficient routing of external traffic.


K8s - Hands-On Experience:

  • Troubleshoot networking issues in Kubernetes clusters, including debugging ingress, services, and network policies.
  • Network access troubleshoot for Public repo and On prem environments.
  • Troubleshooting of DNS issue and SMTP access troubleshoot.


Network infrastructure:


Firewall:

  • Experience with policy creation, rule configuration, and traffic analysis.
  • Configured and managed site-to-site VPNs and SSL VPNs for secure remote access.

DHCP, DNS, and Systems:

  • Experience in managing IP address allocations and subnetting.
  • Hands-on experience in configuring, managing, and troubleshooting DNS servers (e.g., Microsoft DNS, cloud-based DNS services).
  • Experience with domain registration, DNS zone management, and record types (A, AAAA, CNAME).
  • Hands-on experience in routing, switching, and VLAN.

Endpoint Security:

  • Monitoring, detecting, and responding to security incidents, malware outbreaks, and vulnerabilities.
  • Handling security incidents and breaches, conducting forensic analysis, and implementing remediation strategies.
  • Creation and enforcement of security policies, including device control, application whitelisting, and vulnerability management.

System Engineer

Intellect Design Arena
08.2017 - 07.2021
  • Hands on experience in laptop diagnostic tools to find the faulty hardware in Acer, Lenovo, Dell and HP laptops
  • Hands on experience in Laptop/Desktop hardware parts replacement
  • Hardware and software driver's upgradation and installation
  • For chip level issues will raise call log to concern service center and following them to resolve the issues
  • Windows and Linux OS installation on laptops/Desktops
  • Performed windows server OS installation
  • Remotely will guide the user for laptop boot up issues like battery power reset, NV RAM reset, etc
  • Share path quota allocation and user management on windows server
  • Performed virtual OS installations on windows by using VMware Workstation.

Education

B.E - Electronics And Communication Engineering

SBM College of Engineering & Technology
Dindigul, India
06.2012 - 05.2016

Skills

Kubernetes Orchestration

Certification

CKA

Timeline

CKA

08-2024

System Engineer

Intellect Design Arena
08.2017 - 07.2021

B.E - Electronics And Communication Engineering

SBM College of Engineering & Technology
06.2012 - 05.2016

Network and Security Administrator

Intellect Design Arena
8 2021 - Current
Rajapandian MNetwork and Security Engineer